On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Dale Amon wrote:
[Description of verification problem that hits the "Exim is not root
while receiving a message" issue.]
> Given the way you have the code setup, what is your
> intended way for problems of this sort to be handled?
You have two reasonable choices and one unreasonable choice:
Reasonable:
(1) Arrange for the exim user to have access to your data.
(2) Have the verification call a setuid program or a daemon
that runs as root and does the verification.
Unreasonable:
(3) Run Exim as root instead of as exim.
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